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Google recently announced their new news-aggregation application, called Google Currents . Currents allows users to browse many content providers (magazines, blogs, etc.), and add them to their Currents, where they would have easy access to their articles, as well as a beautiful way to browse what might interest you. Currents is available as a free app for iPhone and iPad, as well as both Android phones and tablets. To add a publication, called by currents an "edition", you simply search for the content you want, or find it using the "featured" section, or from any of the categories, and add it to your currents. However, as this is a fairly new service, don't expect to find every publication that you read. Once you have added all of your desired editions, you can tap on any of them to view the content in a beautiful, minimalist design.  Publishers can add content via a simple webpage , and can choose to add more than just simple articles. Publishers can add an u

I never really imagined this day coming. But it's here. It's one year after Gadgetator's first post ever. So much has happened since them, and a big thanks goes out to Leo Laporte , host of the nationally syndicated Tech Guy radio show, on which Gadgetator got it's big boost. But enough about my blog. Let's get right to what this post's really about. One year ago, on this day, I posted an article talking about Google's announcement of the Cr48, one of the major advancements in Google's  Chrome OS operating system. If you are unfamiliar with what Chrome OS is, read the article here . In that article, I promised I would post a follow up after playing a bit with Chrome OS. I never did. Until now. A lot has happened with Chrome OS in the past year. For example, a Chrome OS screenshot one year ago (see figure 1), as apposed to a Chrome OS screenshot today (see figure 2). After actually using a device running solely Chrome OS for close to half-a-year, I